17th Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group Meeting in May 2017

The Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) gathers together every year about a hundred people who are interested in the field of Sahelo-Saharan species conservation. A wide variety of partners, scientists, and experts, coming from about twenty different countries, are involved. Protecting this rich biodiversity, which is still poorly documented and overlooked in comparison with other places on earth, is the main theme of these 2-day meetings, debates, presentations and discussions. The annual meeting provides a great opportunity to update all participants about how to preserve the biodiversity of the region’s ecosystems, and learn from each other’s experience.

This year, the 17h annual SSIG meeting was hosted by Senegal, a country that is particularly involved in biodiversity conservation.

More than 60 researchers, conservationists, representatives of wildlife authorities and internationally-known zoos, driven by collective enthusiasm, have met at the Hôtel de la Poste in Saint-Louis, Senegal.

The attendees have had two intense days of conferences providing an overview of ongoing conservation work in the Sahelo-Saharan area. Oryx, gerbils, bustards, giraffes…. The communications have highlighted an exceptional diversity of species in various places of the Sahel and the Sahara.

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